Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c15.t2.13

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In 1991, the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS) was established, formalising an informal discussion group of China scholars that had been functioning since the 1950s and that had been bringing out a journal called ‘*China Report*’, the only journal in India exclusively on China. The ICS brought together faculty and research scholars from both University of Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru University as well as former diplomats and people from other fields and professions with a specialised interest in China. They had wide research interests, namely International Relations and Strategic Studies, Political & Economic Development of China, History and Historiography, Society and Culture and were committed to the study of China from an inter-disciplinary perspective. The ICS holds regular seminars and conferences, undertakes projects, and is involved in academic exchange as well as track exchanges with organisations in China, Russia and Japan. ICS has also been holding many outreach activities such as an annual All India Conference of China Studies, in order to spread interest and strengthen research in China Studies in the hinterland of India.